The Family of William Warner and Sarah Leitch
Joe Warner, my father, was born on Armistice Day of 1926. It was the eighth anniversary of the end of World War I. Exactly eighteen years and five months later, on April 11, 1945, he enlisted in the Canadian Infantry Corps.
Continue readingIt’s been over fifty years since I last walked in a marathon, or anything like that, to raise money for a good cause. And I’ve never ever had a moustache. So I’m thinking that I’m overdue for both.
Please support my effort by donating to Movember.
Continue readingI have just learned of the passing of Warner family member Cathy Coleman this past June. It is with great sadness that I share the news with all of you.
Continue readingWe’re very proud of our cousin Warner Finstad, who is is in the second year of his post-graduate residency at Sick Kids® Hospital in Toronto. He was recently chosen as one of the recruiting spokespersons for the University of Toronto Paediatric Residency Program.
Continue readingI have a Christmas story for you about a humble young couple, a long and difficult winter’s journey, and a beloved baby boy.
No, it isn’t the couple, the journey, or the baby you’re thinking of. It happened about 1,830 years after that other couple travelled to Bethlehem to be counted and taxed.
Continue readingContinue readingI have a special affection for James [Warner] and Margaret [Quinn]’s fifth child, their third son, Thomas. Our great granduncle was one of the hardest of our relatives to track down in the records. For years he was a mystery. Then, in the spring of 2015, the missing puzzle pieces started to turn up and fall into place. Within a month or so, I was finally able to pull together the story of this elusive uncle.
Warner Stories (unpublished)
Our 18-year-old cousin, Elizabeth Warner of Royal Oak, Michigan, has a lot to teach us about how to deal with a health crisis.
She shared her experience and her advice recently in an article on the website of the Bonnell Foundation.
Continue readingHi Cousins,
I need your input on this one. I hope you’ll let me know what you think in the comment section below (or, if you prefer, a private message through the contact page).
Continue readingFor more information, or to place an order, go to the website or contact Lil’ Stitches Hamilton at lilstitcheshamilton@gmail.com
Continue readingI wrote a little story in March about a moment in the life of my grandmother, Helen Warner (who was born Helen Price), and shared it on the Price family website. Some of you may have seen it.
Continue readingIn my last post, I told you how I came up with the hypothesis that my great great great grandfather William Warner (1808-1845), the one who married Sarah Leitch in Quebec City in 1832, was the son of William Warner (born 1789), of the village of Howden in West Yorkshire, and his wife, Sarah Benson.
.In this post, I’d like to tell you how I was able to use DNA testing to confirm that hypothesis and, going one generation further back, to show that I’m also descended from William Warner and Elizabeth White who were married in Howden in 1776.
Here’s what happened.
Continue readingIt was about ten years ago that I discovered that our branch of the Warner family was descended from a man named William Warner who migrated with his parents from England to Canada in the late 1820s. All I knew about his parents was that his father was also named William.
Continue readingTo kick off what I hope will be a series of many family stories that I’ll share with you on this website, I’d like to start with a story about something that happened to my great great grandmother. Her maiden name was Margaret Ann Quinn (1837-1915) and she was married to James Warner (1837-1909), who was the son of William Warner and Sarah Leitch.
It’s part of a chapter in the Warner family history that I’ve been working on for the past nine years, but I thought it was good enough to share with you now rather than waiting until the book gets published.
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This website is for the descendants of William Warner (1808–1845) and Sarah Leitch (about 1805–1893), and for anyone else interested in the history of the Warner family.
Its mission is to research, preserve, and share our roots and our history, our documents, pictures, and stories, and to bring the family together.
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